Course outline: subject to change. It is important that you read the assigned course reading before class.
Week | Theme of the Week | Course Content | Course readings | February 28 | 228 Memorial Day (Holiday) | | | March 7 | Introduction to the Course; Early Images of China (before 1600) | PPT, class discussion | Colin Mackerras, Western Images of China [abbreviated Western Images hereafter], chapters 1 & 2 | March 14 | Jesuits, Philosophes, and Chinoiserie | PPT, class discussion | François Quesnay, “Le despotisme de la Chine” (1767) & Oliver Goldsmith, “Citizen of the World” (1760-61) excerpts | March 21 | Changing Fashions:
Nineteenth-Century Images of China | PPT, class discussion | Macartney's “Observations on China” (1794) & Rev. Arthur Smith, “Chinese Characteristics” (1894) excerpts | March 28 | Early Images of Taiwan | PPT, class discussion | George Psalmanazar, “An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa” (1704) excerpts; contemporary maps of Formosa | April 4 | Holiday | | | April 11 | Early Republican China | PPT, class discussion | Readings to be announced | April 18 | China and Civil War | PPT, class discussion | Edgar Snow, “Red Star over China” (1937) excerpts | April 25 | Midterm Examination | | | May 2 | China and World War II | PPT, class discussion | Time and Life magazine excerpts | May 9 | Images of China, Post-1949 | PPT, class discussion | Western Images, chapter 6 | May 16 | Images and the Cultural Revolution, The “Intellectuals” and China | PPT, class discussion | Jann Myrdal, “China: The Revolution Continued,” (1970), Lorenz Stucki,
“Behind the Great Wall: An Appraisal of Mao's China,” (1965), Felix Greene, “Awakened China: The Country Americans Don't Know,” (1961), Shirley MacLaine, “You Can Get There from Here,” (1975) | May 23 | Cold War Images of Taiwan | PPT, class discussion | Time and Life magazine excerpts | May 30 | The PRC’s Diplomatic Opening: 1970s | PPT, class discussion | Magazine and newspaper excerpts; visual images | June 6 | The PRC’s Economic Opening: 1978 - | PPT, class discussion | Time and Life magazine excerpts | June 13 | Taiwan’s Modernization, Derecognition, and Democratization | PPT, class discussion | Magazine and newspaper excerpts (including National Geographic); visual images | June 20 | Conflicting Images: Tiananmen, World Trade Organization, Beijing 2008; Images of Contemporary China | PPT, class discussion | Magazine and newspaper excerpts; visual images | June 27 | Final Examination | | |
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